AUGUST 13 - BRITAIN'S best young beach volleyball players looking to compete in the 2012 Olympics will begin their preparations by competing in the SWATCH FIVB Junior World Beach Volleyball Championships in Brighton next month.

AUGUST 14 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, has warned that athletics could end up with a reputation for drugs as bad as American football unless it starts to clean up its act.

August 25 - Jamaica's tourism indsutry is hoping the incredible success of Usain Bolt (pictured) and the country's sprinters will help persuade more travellers to visit the Caribbean island.

August 25 - China is hoping to build on its success in the ring at last year's Beijing Olympics by launching the country's first national amateur boxing league next year, the country's Boxing Federation has announced.

August 25 - A chorus of song and drums, and the blare of hundreds of vuvuzelas, greeted Caster Semenya when she arrived home from the World Championships at a packed OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.

August 25 - A group of Ethiopian athletes have fled from their hotel in London and failed to make their connecting flight to Edinburgh to compete at the  Falkirk Cup athletics event.

August 25 - A £5 million cycling park in Gravesened, set to be Britain's biggest biggest, has been given the go-ahead fter receiving substantial backing from British Cycling and it is scheduled to be completed in 2012.

August 25 - Vero Communications, the company set-up by former London 2012 director of public relations Mike Lee, have been appointed by Hull to help them become a 2018 World Cup host city.

August 25 - China is confident of winning at least two of the three gold medals available when women's boxing makes its debut at London 2012, the President of the country's national boxing association has claimed.

August 25 - Caster Semenya (pictured), the controversial world 800 metres champion, is set to be greeted by thousands of fans today when she lands back home in South Africa.

OCTOBER 17 - SCOTLAND'S players should not be forced to miss out on the opportunity of playing football in the 2012 Olympics, David Davies (pictured), the former executive director of the Football Association, said today.

OCTOBER 17 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured) and Jonathan Edwards are among 372 key decision makers attending the first European Athletics Convention, which begins in Amsterdam today.

By Duncan Mackay 

October 17 - Irish show jumper Denis Lynch (pictured) was officially disqualified tonight from the Olympics equestrian events for a positive drug test on his horse.

OCTOBER 18 - ATHLETICS will continue to be held at the Olympic Stadium after it has staged the 2012 Games, the sport's chief executive in Britain claims he has been promised.

OCTOBER 18 - BRUNO GRANDI (pictured) was re-elected as the International Gymnastics Federation president at its meeting in Helsinki today for the next four years through the 2012 London Olympics.